Canadian winters

andy · Post by **andy** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:00 pm

Denis...is this what it's like up where you live in winter? Or could that be Jackson Hole, Wy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsxV49pmnL8

Andy

Erik712m · Post by **Erik712m** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:02 pm

Or could that be Jackson Hole, Wy

Lets say Jackson Hole. Todd looks like they caught you in pursuit, of some of the rainbow festival goers.

Denis · Post by **Denis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:00 am

Good day Andy

Here it is how it's in Quebec Canada. No need to go to the back and push if you get stuck, pull a cable and call for help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRQAUZAIOhQ

We had the first snow fall yesterday. Here not much but in the mountain east of Quebec city they had 35 cm of fresh powder to play in.

Denis

andy · Post by **andy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:35 am

Denis...BRRRRRRRR

I've actually seen stuff like that and thought it was neat. What was I thinking?

Quite a transition from Moab to 35cm of snow in two weeks or so.

Enjoy your snow.

Andy

dr4yrk9 · Post by **dr4yrk9** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:47 am

got to say, what tires are on that truck?

todds112 · Post by **todds112** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:44 pm

Now THAT is funny.

That's why we only drive 4x4 Tahoes.

Here is a short clip of a Code 3 run up the Teton Pass. I was going to a head on crash on the other side. Note the numb skulls who refuse to yield to lights and sirens.

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y169/t ... 3Small.flv

ka · Post by ka » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:52 pm

it's all just tires (psi on the ground), ground clearance and locking diffs when comparing rigs. if it's not level then it's also CG. if it's more than just snow then that's where magicians make their living.

Erik712m · Post by **Erik712m** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:04 pm

Note the numb skulls who refuse to yield to lights and sirens.

Around here if you don't yield it's a ticket.

andy · Post by **andy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:33 pm

Been there done that. Was working late one Friday evening help a baby agent write an affidavit for a search warrant, when some of our guys called for help. So me and baby agent get in the Ford Crown Vic and do the lights and siren thing.

We have "snow birds" older people from up north who come down and spend the winters. Well the snow birds were out in force that night. They were gradually getting into the right lane, until I got behind a Lincoln Continental, (all you could see was 6 heads) will he wouldn't move right, so what did he do? Yep, he stops!

We were lucky he did it in a spot where the median was relatively level and about 20-30 feet wide. I hit it at speed and barely got around him and back on the road before we hit a bridge abutment.

Baby agent was white as a sheet. Told him it was lucky for him that I'd been to the Jack Webb School of high speed driving twice. Once for BP and once for Customs. Never did own up to the fact that the driver's seat had a crease in for about a month afterwards.

Andy

Heed · Post by **Heed** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:58 am

Around here if you don't yield it's a ticket.

It is that way here too.

The unfortunate part is that you're the only cop around for miles (you can never seem to find one when you need one...

) and it's ironic that you can't take the time to stop the clown and give him a a ticket because you have to get to your call ASAP!

Andy, it does get interesting trying to anticipate what people are going to do when they finally see those red and blue lights behind them, doesn't it?

I usually find that you see the eyes look into the rear-view, followed by an immediate hard braking and stopping in the lane that they are in!

We respond in Suburbans. There are times that I wished I had an anchor to throw out the window

. Great in the snow...not so much for the rest of Physics...(kinda like the Pinz in that respect, I guess!). Once we get all of our tactical gear in them, they get weighted down considerably.

andy · Post by **andy** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:20 am

Heed The most "interesting" ones were when I was in the Border Patrol and we were making stops on alien smugglers. We would get into the weirdest chases.

We were using 4 X 4 Dodge Ramchargers for the most part. Interesting times going around corners. I think the only reason we caught people was because the cars and trucks they were using were real junkers. The kind that if we were using we probably wouldn't make it to the end of the block.

We did discover that if we could get in behind them with no lights, out here on highways at nighttime it's not hard to do, and hit them with the headlights, reds, and blues, and a siren all at once, they wouldn't have too much time to think. We still had a lot that made it to the side of the road, or through the fence and then tied to bail out. If they bailed we'd try to spotlight as many as possible, they'd all be ollking back to see where we were, and temporarily blind them. Then you'd hear the, ooch, ouchs, etc. as they found the cactus while running blindly. It made it much easier to round them up.

I remember one guy in particular who bailed out of the back of a pickup truck, but left his boots behind. The day crew caught him about 15 hours later, about 18 miles away, and his feet had swollen to the size of clown shoes from all the thorns he had picked up.

Ahh....the good old days.

Andy